Leaves elliptic-oblong to oblong-lanceolate (the lower- 
most blade sometimes broadly oval), up to about 22 em. 
long and 5 em. wide, abruptly acute to short-acuminate, 
narrowed to a sheathing base, with the lower cluster of 
blades imbricating below. Spike elongate-cylindric, sub- 
densely many-flowered (looser toward the base), up to 
about 26 cm. long: rachis densely tomentulose. Floral 
bracts ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, up to 1.9 em. 
long, densely tomentulose on the outer surface, finely 
short-ciliate (only minutely so near the apex), slightly 
shorter than the flower. Ovary and outer surface of flower 
tomentose. Flowers small, subfleshy, green or greenish 
white, campanulate in natural position with the lower 
part of the sepals tubular-concave and the apex reflexed. 
Dorsal sepal with its base adnate to the column, elliptic- 
oblong or oblong-lanceolate, narrowed to an obtuse or 
subacute apex, about 6 mm. long and 2 mm. wide, with 
one prominent nerve. Lateral sepals connate with the 
base of the lip into a short tube; free portion obliquely 
elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, about 7 
mm. long and 8.8 mm. wide, 2- to 8-nerved. Petals ad- 
nate to the sepaline tube, obliquely linear or oblanceolate- 
linear, subacute, 1-nerved, with the upper margins more 
or less minutely cellular-ciliolate, about 5.8 mm. long. 
Lip uppermost, adnate at base to the short sepaline tube, 
tubular-concave in natural position, broadly ovate in 
outline when expanded, with lobulate-undulate upper 
margins and truncate-obtuse apex having a short blunt 
apicule, about 7.5 mm. long through the center of the 
free portion, rather fleshy except near the margins, bi- 
callose at base. Column relatively elongate, 5 mm. long 
in front, abbreviated and adnate to the ovary on the 
back, retrorsely geniculate above, densely pubescent. 
Anther transversely and shallowly ovoid, carinate-acute 
at the summit, 2-celled. 
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